** With the introduction of Windows 7 ( Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise editions ), Windows XP Mode enables full compatibility with older programs supported under Windows XP via Microsoft Virtual PC.

* Enabling International Support in Windows XP / Server 2003 Family, a Microsoft tutorial on how to install input methods on Windows XP.

Context menus in Windows XP are customizable by third-party software.

For example, Windows XP does this when sorting file names.

ClearType was later introduced as an operating system feature in Windows XP, where it was kept turned off by default.

ClearType in Windows XP currently supports the RGB and BGR sub pixel structures.

The best option for users of Windows XP having rotated LCD displays ( Tablet PCs or swivel-stand LCD displays ) is using regular anti-aliasing, or switching off font-smoothing altogether.

Duke Nukem 3D has been ported to run on modern Microsoft Windows variants including Windows XP and Windows 7.

FCPLib supports Windows NT / 2K / XP, Debian, BSD, Solaris, and Mac OS X.

In hindsight, Cairo was a much more difficult project than Microsoft had anticipated and, as a result, NT and Chicago would not be unified until Windows XP — albeit Windows 2000, oriented to business, had already unified most of the system ’ s bolts and gears, it was XP that was sold to home consumers like Windows 95 and came to be viewed as the final unified OS.

* Windows Media Player applets, used to display embedded video files in Internet Explorer ( and other browsers that support the plugin )

* Formats with lossless compression, such as FLAC, Monkey's Audio ( filename extension APE ), WavPack ( filename extension WV ), TTA, ATRAC Advanced Lossless, Apple Lossless ( filename extension m4a ), MPEG-4 SLS, MPEG-4 ALS, MPEG-4 DST, Windows Media Audio Lossless ( WMA Lossless ), and Shorten ( SHN ).

* Formats with lossy compression, such as MP3, Vorbis, Musepack, AAC, ATRAC and Windows Media Audio Lossy ( WMA lossy )).

* wma – the popular Windows Media Audio format owned by Microsoft.

Newer ones include Free Lossless Audio Codec ( FLAC ), Apple's Apple Lossless, MPEG-4 ALS, Microsoft's Windows Media Audio 9 Lossless ( WMA Lossless ), Monkey's Audio, and TTA.

Probably the most widely used formats for delivering video over the internet are MPEG4, Quicktime, Flash and Windows Media, while MPEG2 is used almost exclusively for DVDs, providing an exceptional image in minimal size but resulting in a high level of CPU consumption to decompress.

A number of features from Windows 98 were incorporated also, such as an improved Device Manager, Windows Media Player, and a revised DirectX that made it possible for the first time for many modern games to work on the NT kernel.

** Windows XP Home Edition N, as above, but without a default installation of Windows Media Player, as mandated by a European Union ruling

** Windows XP Professional N, as above, but without a default installation of Windows Media Player, as mandated by a European Union ruling

Contained all features offered in Windows XP Professional and the Windows Media Center.

Subsequent versions are the same but have an updated Windows Media Center.

** Windows XP Media Center Edition 2003

** Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004

** Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, released on 12 October 2004.

Vista also features new graphics features, the Windows Aero GUI, new applications ( such as Windows Calendar, Windows DVD Maker and some new games including Chess, Mahjong, and Purble Place ), Internet Explorer 7, Windows Media Player 11, and a large number of underlying architectural changes.

In some countries ( Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, United Kingdom, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland ), there are other editions that lack some features such as Windows Media Player, Windows Media Center and Internet Explorer called names such as " Windows 7 N ."

* Gary Beene's Information Center regarding BASIC, with timeline dates for DOS, Windows and BASIC dialects

* Microsoft Windows Mobile Device Center for Windows Vista, which supports Microsoft Windows Mobile and Pocket PC devices.

Microsoft's ActiveSync and Windows Mobile Device Center only synchronize with Microsoft Outlook or a Microsoft Exchange server.

As complexity and potential programming faults of the set-top box increase, software such as Windows Vista's Media Center, MythTV, and Select-TV have developed features comparable to those of set-top boxes, ranging from basic DVR-like functionality to DVD copying, home automation, and housewide music or video playback.

In the Windows infrastructure management arena, products cater to Active Directory, Exchange, SharePoint, Microsoft Windows, and System Center users.

Windows Media Player 10 and later feature integration with a large number of online music stores and selecting a music store switches the Info Center view, radio and other online features to use services from that store.

Currently known as " Media Player 10 Mobile ", this edition ( released in October 2004 ) closely resembles the capabilities of the Windows version of WMP 10, including playlist capabilities, a media library, album art, WMA Lossless playback, support for DRM-protected media, video playback at 640x480 with stereo sound, and the same Energy Blue interface aesthetics also seen in recent versions of Windows XP Media Center Edition.

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* Windows 2000, 32-bit Windows XP & Media Center Edition: 175. 19 released on July 9, 2008 ; Download.

Windows Messenger also integrates with Media Center in Windows XP Media Center Edition.

* Windows NT 4. 0 Server, Enterprise Edition ( includes support for 8-way SMP and clustering )

In 1999, Microsoft released Windows 98 Second Edition, an interim release.

* Windows 2000 Advanced Server Limited Edition

* Windows 2000 Datacenter Server Limited Edition

In September 2000, Microsoft introduced Windows Me ( Millennium Edition ), which upgraded Windows 98 with enhanced multimedia and Internet features from Windows 2000.

Windows Me was criticised for stability issues, and for lacking real mode DOS support, to the point of being referred to as the " Mistake Edition " or " Many Errors.

* Windows XP Home Edition, for home desktops and laptops-lacked features such as joining Active Directory Domain, Remote Desktop Server and Internet Information Services Server.

* Windows XP Professional, for business and power users contained all features in Home Edition.

* Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, for tablet PCs

** Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005

* Windows XP Starter Edition, for new computer users in developing countries

* Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, released on 25 April 2005 for home and workstation systems utilizing 64-bit processors based on the x86-64 instruction set developed by AMD as AMD64 ; Intel calls their version Intel 64

* Windows XP 64-bit Edition, is a version for Intel's Itanium line of processors ; maintains 32-bit compatibility solely through a software emulator.

** Windows XP 64-bit Edition 2003, based on the Windows NT 5. 2 codebase.

On 25 April 2005, Microsoft released Windows XP Professional x64 Edition and Windows Server 2003, x64 Editions in Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter SKUs.